President Clay likes to take roll.

Yes, please.

Commissioner Techie?

Yeah.

Commissioner Scott.

Commissioner Liang.

Here.

Commissioner Yi is in route.

Vice President Benedicto.

Here.

I'm sorry.

And Commissioner Elias is also in route.

President Clay, you have a quorum also with us tonight.

Our Chief Lou from the San Francisco Police Department and Executive Director Paul Henderson from the Department of Police Accountability.

All right, thank you, sir.

And thank you everyone for being here for our before we're about to be done in the beginning.

Line item one, weekly officer recognition certificate.

Presentation of an officer who has gone above and beyond in the performance of their duties.

Officer Richard Hawkins, star number 1620 from Richmond Station.

All right.

All right.

Good evening, Chief Liu, Police Commissioners, Director Henderson, family and friends.

My name is Kirk Yin.

I'm a lieutenant at Richmond Station.

And tonight it's my privilege to recognize Officer Richard Hawkins as the Richmond Station Officer of the Week.

And we're honored to be joined by Rich's wife Stacey, his two sons Cal and Bran, his mother Young, and his stepfather Mike.

When I received the request for nomination, I was in the office with my fellow lieutenants.

I shared the email, and without hesitation, I said, it's gotta be Rich.

Rich is an 11-year veteran of the San Francisco Police Department.

He is highly respected by his peers and his supervisors alike.

His dedication to the community and to his fellow officers are second to none.

He is one of the station's top traffic enforcement officers, with many of his stops focused on the five, especially protecting our youngsters around schools.

Rich also demonstrates leadership and investment in our department's future, serving as both a field training officer and an instructor at the police academy.

And most recently, Rich was engaged in a life or death struggle with an armed suicidal subject.

Exactly one month ago today, a passerby reported an armed individual at Masonic and Euclid streets.

An overhead Arctic drone confirmed what appeared to be a male with gunparts.

Although it was not his sector, unsurprisingly, Rich was the first officer on scene.

As the suspect began to walk away, Rich confirmed the presence of gun parts and gave a lawful order to stop.

Instead, the suspect fled and began exhibiting pre-assaultive behavior.

Fearing for the public's safety on this busy thoroughfare near very popular Trader Joe's, Rich grabbed the suspect and the fight quickly escalated to the ground.

More concerning, the suspect continued to keep his hands at his waistband.

As additional units arrived, Rich felt a firearm in the suspect's waistband and immediately warned his fellow officers.

The suspect was eventually taken into custody, where we seized not only one loaded firearm, but two loaded firearms.

And three knives.

One in each pants pocket and one tied to his left calf concealed.

After the scene was safe, only then did Rich volunteer to go to the hospital.

And true to form, Rich did not miss a day off.

For his actions during this incident, Rich will be nominated for consideration for the Medal of Valor.

Given his service, his leadership, his courage, I think we can all agree it's got to be Rich.

It is my honor to present Officer Richard B.

Hawkins, star 1620 with this award.

He is one of Richmond's best and one of San Francisco's finest.

Congratulations.

I'm honored to stand here before you.

This is really a lot.

So thank you.

Um I just want to share some of the recognition with officers at Richmond Station.

Monday, Tuesday, Swing Watch specifically.

Uh there's a lot of great cops there.

They make coming to work a joy.

Um constantly laughing, and I look forward to the next day of work.

And I just want to thank my family for being here.

Uh Stacy, Cal, and Brian, my mom and stepdad.

Um, without their love and support, I wouldn't be able to do this.

So thank you all.

Uh, I really appreciate it.

I got the lead off for on the elevator or just before.

Yeah, they's a little bit daddy with them.

So I got to see the enjoy and happiness as we were coming in and how the energy is out.

So I I just want to thank you for your acts of hours, also described to us.

Our true acts of hours.

And truly, yeah.

Your commitment to your duty of service as well as your commitment to your team.

And that's now people don't realize what you have to go through each and every day, all the officers here who serve this department.

And to hear these things, it's always great to hear.

But I know that's just your commitment when you took this job.

And it's just we're really appreciated all that you've done.

So thank you so much for what you've done, service for this community.

That being said, Chief Liu.

Good evening.

Just wanted to say thank you to Lieutenant Yin, Lieutenant Ozul, Edric.

And uh Officer Hawkins, big big thank you.

First off, hearing about you being one of the top um traffic enforcement officers out there.

Uh some of the top asks at any community meeting that you go to.

So thank you for doing that.

Uh, secondly, just hearing about your incident.

Um, just a reminder of what officers go through on a daily night.

You never know what you're gonna get.

Um it's the sort of stuff that keeps me up at night.

So I want to say thank you.

Uh, not just one gun, but two guns, truly, you just never know.

Um, and then to your family, um, your husband, your son, your dad, truly heroic.

So thank you very much.

Commissioner Redicto?

Thank you very much, President Clay.

Uh, thank you, uh Lieutenant Yim for bringing uh for your remarks and for bringing uh Officer Hawkins to our attention.

Congratulations, officer.

It really is um, I think one tremendous thing about what uh we're able to do with the weekly recognition is to recognize sort of ordinary acts of tremendous service as well as extraordinary acts like we're seeing for the Medal of Valor, and you're an officer are really seeing both a Medal of Valor worthy uh incident as well as the incredible everyday things, traffic enforcement with focus on the five, being an FTO officer and really having an impact on that next generation of SFPD, and really all the impact that you you've been able uh to have.

Uh like many of the officers we recognize, your first recognition really was to your team.

I think that's such a strong testament to the team culture that we have in this department, and of course, a tremendous recognition uh of your family.

You know, it's all of the family and support systems of our officers are so integral to how our our SFPD officers are able to do what they do.

They're the ones who have to, you know, deal with missed events and missed birthdays and long hours.

I know we just came off of an incredible week of overtime, so I'm sure that all those things, even just in the last week and more to come, and so uh congratulations again, and and thank you for all those who came out to support you.

Commissioner Techy.

I just want to say thank you, officer, for brilliant work.

And I know it's not very easy to do either swing shift or night shift, you're all by I mean it's a very small crew of folks out there and what you encountered.

I just want to appreciate your work and also appreciate your family sacrificing their time for you being out there.

Thanks.

Commissioner Leon.

Thank you, President Clay.

Officer Hawkins, congratulations.

And as a resident of the Richmond, I wanted to thank you and your colleagues for all your work.

The Richmond has a reputation for being quiet and peaceful, and I just want to emphasize that that's not an accident, and it is actually the result of the efforts of you and your colleagues that make it quiet.

So thank you.

Commissioner Scott.

Congratulations, um, to you and to your commanding staff and your family and everyone that's here.

Um, thank you, family, for allowing him to serve for us.

Thank you.

Um, and it's this kind of work that people don't get to see in the community.

Um, your dedicated your dedication, your commitment for saving lives, and especially um for getting firearms, you know, secured and off the street.

You know, I I value that because we have too many weapons out there, and uh it's personal for me because I lost the thunder gun violence.

So I applaud you and your staff and everyone and our police department for doing an excellent job and helping our communities to be safer and to getting firearms off the street with our lives being lost.

At the end of the day, you get to go home, and at the end of the day, the community gets to go home and be safe.

So thank you again for your services and congratulations.

Thank you very much, Sir President uh Clay.

I also want to thank you, Officer Hawkins, for all your courage and leadership and you know, keeping us safe in the district.

I live in the Richmond district, so I'm very appreciative of what you're doing to keeping us safe throughout the throughout your shift and then with your team and teamwork and and your, I guess the training that you received from the San Francisco Police Department, making sure that you are safe and make sure that you come home at the end of the day.

I want to thank the family that stands behind you too as well in all the years that they you know sacrifice as well.

Uh continue to be safe out there, and at the end of the day, like Commissioner Scott says come home safe at night.

Thank you very much.

If any member of the public would like to make public comment regarding line item one, please approach the podium.

And there is no public comment, line item two, general public comment.

At this time, the public is now welcome to address the commission for up to two minutes on items that do not appear on tonight's agenda, but are within the subject matters jurisdiction of the police commission under police commission rules of order.

Excuse me, during public comment, neither police or DPA personnel nor commissioners are required to respond to questions by the public, but may provide a brief response.

Alternatively, you may submit public comment in either of the following ways.

Email the Secretary of the Police Commission at SFPD.commissioner sfgov.org.

Or written comments may be sent via U.S.

Postal Service to the public safety building located at 1245 Third Street, San Francisco, California, 94158.

If you'd like to make public comment, please approach the podium.

Good evening, everyone.

Um I'm here concerning my son Arbre Abracassa, who was murdered August 14, 2006.

To this day, his case isn't solved.

I'd like to use the overhead.

And this is my son Arbor Casa, young boy, just turned 17 years old, was murdered in front of my house on August 14, 2006.

To this day, there is no um no solving of his case.

I bring these pictures with me.

This is my beautiful son again with his last graduation picture that I will see.

That's the last graduate ration picture that I'll see.

I bring the other pictures with me for unsolved homicides because my questions now is about unsolved homicides, about other mothers and fathers who are losing our children to homicide.

I bring these other pictures with me.

I mean, not pictures, but the perpetrators of the that murdered my son.

These are all the names of the perpetrators.

One of them is deceased, one of the two here is deceased, and they're still walking the street to cause harm to innocent other people.

This is what they left me when they shot my son with a semi-automatic gun.

30 rounds of bullets from that gun left my beautiful son into my beautiful son.

And to this day, I come here with these pictures to because I can talk about it all the time, but if you don't see what I'm going through, you'll never know.

So I have no no uh speech to say.

I'm coming to you as a mother for these last 20 years, seeking justice for my lovely son.

And this is what I have to remember.

So I'm seeking justice.

And there is no further public comment.

Line item three, Chief's report, discussion, weekly crime trends and public safety concerns.

Provided an overview of offenses, incidents, or events occurring in San Francisco, having an impact on public safety.

Chief Liu.

Good evening, President Clay, Vice President Benedicto, Commissioners, and Director Henderson.

Uh, before I get started today, I'd like to ask for a moment of silence for um one of our brothers that was laid to rest today, Officer Jose Mora, uh 17-year-old year veteran of our uh department, very popular, uh, after a battle with cancer.

Um he spent time working at Central, Bayview, Mission, Terravel, and Park, and his last assignment was over at the Airport Bureau.

He leaves um beautiful wife and uh three children, thank you.

All right, before I get into the uh crime trends, uh last week during the use of force audit, um Commissioner Benedicto, I think you had asked about clarification and confirmation as to some language that we were going to use uh in an email to remind uh our members um about how they should not be evaluating nor approving their own use of force.

So uh just to answer that question and give you final confirmation uh that the answer is yes, and uh policy group will be sending out another reminder email.

Okay, now getting into the weekly crime trends and statistics.

Overall part one crimes is down 35 percent year to date compared to 2025.

Total violent crimes are down 27% for the year.

As of the end of the week, there are four homicides year to date in 2026 compared to one in 2025, representing a 300% increase.

Um, however, there are two additional homicides from this period that I will uh address.

Looking at gun violence, which is defined as the number of people injured in a shooting incident added to the number of persons killed by a firearm, we are down forty-one percent compared to 2025.

Incidents of rapes, which includes attempts are down 26%.

Assaults for the year are down 28%, with a decrease of 43% in assaults by firearm.

Robberies are down 30% with robberies using a firearm declining by 57%.

Human trafficking incidents are up 25%, with five incidents being reported so far this year compared to four last year at this time.

Total property crimes is down 36%, burglaries are down 42%.

Motor vehicle theft is down 40%.

Excuse me.

Larceny theft, which includes vehicle burglaries are down thirty-four percent overall, and specifically uh with regard to auto burglaries, they're down forty percent over 2025.

Uh okay, uh there's one reported homicide during this period ending 2.8.

So four homicides as of this Sunday.

However, including early Monday and today, we're up to six.

One homicide, okay.

So, overall with an overall clearance rate for 2026 of 167%.

There were no shootings reported up till February 8th.

But again, uh there were two this period, one on Monday and then one today, which I'll speak about.

On 2.6 at 12:10 a.m.

on the 19-hour block of mission in the mission district.

A victim approached officers and advised he had been stabbed.

This victim was transported to the hospital where he succumbed to his injuries.

A suspect was identified and arrested within a few hours of that incident taking place.

Moving into the homicides from this week, starting with Monday.

So on Monday, February 9th in the Southern District, officers responded to the scene at 2nd in Harrison.

They did discover a victim who was suffering from gunshot wounds.

They started life-saving efforts, and the victim was later declared deceased at the hospital.

This is an open and ongoing investigation.

There are currently no arrests.

As of this morning in the Tenderloin district, so this morning at 8:55 a.m.

SFPD officers responded to the 100 block of Turk regarding a shooting.

They located an adult male victim suffering from a gunshot wound.

They began CPR.

And despite those life-saving measures, the victim was declared deceased on scene.

Officers located and arrested a person of interest at the scene.

So I just want to quickly recap for 2026 since there are quite a few numbers and above pace from last year.

First off, all six of these incidents are considered to be isolated.

And of the six incidents that I've talked spoken of.

So there was one on the January 11th, 300 block of Ellis.

One on January 15th, 16th in San Bruno.

January 30th, 800 block of Golden Gate.

February 6th, 1900 block of mission.

February 9th, 2nd in Harrison.

And then today, February 11th, 100 block of Turk.

Of those six incidents, five arrests have been made, with one open case.

Moving on to notable operations.

So recapping the month of January with regard to our continued progress and continued work in the drug markets.

For the month of January, our officers made a total of 106 arrests.

They seized over 4,800 grams of narcotics, which equates to about 10 and a half pounds.

Confiscated three firearms during those operations.

These operations occurred in our usual DMAC zones as well as the Bayview.

And during these undercover by bust operations, there was fentanyl, meth, cocaine base, and heroin seized from the street.

We also had a one-day fret operation, which is a fugitive recovery operation, where officers seek out suspects or subjects with outstanding warrants for their arrest during this one-day operation that occurred on January 28th.

The operation led to 53 arrests as well as other drug and firearm-related charges.

And then in total, since the launch of our drug market agency coordination center back in May 2023, officers have seized over 1,000 pounds of narcotics, including 351 pounds of fentanyl, and they've made over 12,000 arrests.

One significant arrest to mention on February 7th at approximately 5.48 p.m.

Officers were on patrol in the area of 16th and mission.

So this is kind of in the middle of Super Bowl festivities and during that time.

A male in a vehicle drove by 16th admission and threw an ignited Molotov cocktail into the street and fled the scene.

Officers reacted immediately.

They were able to extinguish the flames in conjunction with Arctic and drones.

They were able to follow that suspect and locate them.

And they did uh make an arrest.

I'll speak about a shooting in the mission, which included a uh well-covered um incident including a uh San Francisco 49er.

On February 9th, 2026 at approximately 4.06 a.m.

SFPD officers responded to a business located on the 1700 block of Mission Street regarding a shooting.

They did locate a victim who was transported to local hospital for non-life-threatening injuries.

No arrests have been made at this time.

It's an open and act and active uh investigation.

Moving to large events.

So we just got through Super Bowl week, as we all know.

I just want to say very proud of the members of the police department.

Um it was over 18 months of preparation and coordination with many outside agencies, a lot of long hours, canceled days off, and we got nothing but rave reviews for very good and positive engagement from our officers with the thousands of visitors that came to our city.

So, in total, we served approximately 200 events total, uh, some of them very complex, some of them requiring a full complement of SFPD deployment.

And on any given day, there were 40 to 50 of those um events ongoing, and many of them simultaneously.

Uh, there were no major security concerns.

We also kicked off lunar new year uh over at uh uh the grant gate with the public safety team as well as the mayor.

Uh we discussed a security plan for the festivities, and then given um some of the confusion over language access, we took the opportunity to remind everyone that we have many resources for language access for our LEP members.

First amendment activities, so in support of the uh SFUSD strikes, um we're continuing to support city agencies as well as uh students' parents due to those challenges.

On Monday the 9th, we facilitated a demonstration with about 5,000 um protesters who gathered at Civic Center.

No incidents were reported, and then on Tuesday the 10th, we facilitated another demonstration uh where demonstrators gathered at Dolores Park, and again, no incidents were reported.

We have been coordinating with the Department of Children, Youth and Families, so DCYF.

They developed a community safety plan, and uh we coordinated with them to play our part.

Just a touch on SIPD recruitment.

Last month, January 2026, we had our highest application month in years with 803 applications received, which is an 85% increase over January 2025.

And that concludes my report.

Thank you, Chief, for that report.

I did say that the department did a tremendous job during Super Bowl week.

Everyone I spoke to, people from all across the country, they were just delighted to be here in San Francisco, and they couldn't believe all the things they had heard about the city.

They said this is just not true.

What we heard.

This place is just incredible, and they really appreciate being here in the city.

So really great job for the for the department and the staff and all those people who worked on it uh on this project over the years to get over the months to get it done.

Secondly, you know, it's a standout to hear this clearance rate for the homicides.

You know, I've been in the game for forty-f two, forty-four years.

And in five within a month, you got six homicides, you've cleared five in this this days, pretty much.

That's just incredible.

I mean, you commend yourself, your officer department.

I know people around the country, they hear those numbers and see what you've done.

They're just amazed of doing what you guys all are doing out there.

And we really appreciate that and commend the organization and those people out there leading that and going out and doing their jobs.

Secondly, the numbers with the DMAC, which you guys have done over this year and process, those are tremendous numbers also.

And those are standout.

And you're looking at you hearing that, and you're just saying physically, how did it happen?

Because those those are a lot of numbers, a lot of things happening.

A lot of, you know, you've got a lot of things going on all at one time.

So we once again, you know, want to say congratulations for your your group doing what they've done.

And then finally, um the technology of shining.

That technology that you have now, at your hands to do the work, is showing.

It's showing the effect of what what how great it is to have it, and we need to get you more.

And so that's what we hope to do and support you in doing that.

So thank you for this report, Chief.

We appreciate it.

Okay.

Thank you, sir.

Commissioner Yee.

Thank you very much there, uh, President Clay.

Just want to echo what uh President uh Clay has said.

Uh all the great things the police department has done.

Uh especially uh Super Bowl weekend.

I've been driving to these not driving to these events driving through these events.

It was just uh so many people out there, and to see, I guess the results of all the uh visitors to our uh great city, saying um how uh the the weather, the weather was actually uh you know a plus to it, and I hope all those uh visitors come back again to the city and how much they felt the love here from the city of San Francisco and for the police department to step up planning it over a year time.

Uh I won't say it's perfect, but it's almost you can say it's close to perfect, you know, as you can get.

Um also I want to say uh, you know, the drone technology too.

I think maybe there's probably uh we can maybe see we can increase that, look at the budget, see if we can uh have more training for officers and also um, you know, more drones out there to use for I I guess for the twos for the officers.

Uh hope we get up to the 2000 range and for the officers and continued uh great work there, Chief.

Thank you very much.

Commissioner Scott.

Thank you.

Uh President Clay.

Yes, I just wanted to commend um the chief for the report that you have given us, especially um to the department as well, the whole uh our whole SFPD department um to shine a light on you because um this was a huge weekend for our city, um, a lot of traffic, a lot of people, and uh, and to our city officials and and uh departments, um, for a well-organized planned effort to welcome visitors here in San Francisco for and that it was a safe, safe, very safe um Super Bowl weekend with that many people.

And um just to commend you on the um shootings, um results and retrieving the weapons is very impressive, um, to show um that the drones and and technology is helping out the our uh police department to to work better and apprehending suspects as well as um getting um firearms out of the wrong hands, and also the San Francisco community.

Thank you.

Thank our community because our community working with our police department, working with our city officials and um partners.

Um, you helped us to be successful.

You you all help um us to be successful in this this Super Bowl weekend, and so um and to help keep our city safe.

You know, one homicide is too many, as I always say, you know, but thanks to your efforts, we're not where we used to be um in those numbers.

So um I just want to say thank you to you, to as our new chief, and to our city and our um everyone that took play the role in it.

You know, we have to keep doing this.

Um, our city is a great city, it's a beautiful city, and we want everybody to feel safe and comfortable when they come here.

So thank you and thank everybody for a great weekend.

If any member of the public would like to make public comment regarding line item three, please approach the podium.

I'm back again.

Um I'd like to use the overhead and um concerning the ways to pay tipsters to come forth.

I came here last week to ask uh how we can put this out there even more.

Um because like I said, I'm putting them climbing up on polls and stapling them to a poll.

We can find other media to get this out there to the to the community.

We're talking about community.

We can get this out there to the community to let them know that you know there's ways to solve their loved ones' cases by speaking out and talking up about what happened, um, as well as um finding ways, you know.

Um I I wanted to thank you for having my investigator call me.

And uh I I missed the meeting with them, but I I'm gonna get with Lisa Ortez so that I can reschedule a meeting next month.

I mean, in August will be my son's anniversary.

I'll take this up now.

Will be my son's uh not anniversary but birthday.

Uh I mean April, April 6th.

Um, and then my birthday is coming up on the 14th.

Um, you know, he was murdered on the 14th.

My birthday is on the 14th, because so it's like really crazy for me.

Um, I just need other ways to find the tips, just come.

Go knock on some doors, you know.

Row those those perpetrators up that have murdered our children.

Say, do you remember what happened in 2006?

Make them think about it.

Um, this is something I want my investigators to do.

Um, my new investigator to come out there and uh find other ways to talk to these perpetrators that are killing our children because time is elapsing.

Something needs to be done.

Thank you.

If any member of the public has any information regarding the murder of Aubrey Abercassa, you can call the anonymous 247 tip line at 415-575-444.

Line item four, DPA Directors Report discussion, a report on recent DPA activities and announcements.

Executive Director Henderson.

Thank you.

Currently, we have opened since last police commission 17 new cases uh at DPA.

Uh currently that's 88 so far this year.

We have 196 cases currently under investigation going on right now.

Uh so far this year we've closed 86 cases.

Uh and there are 12 cases whose uh investigations have gone beyond uh a nine-month investigation.

All of those cases that are ongoing over 270 days are cases that are being told.

We are in the middle of doing our budget right now, and the today's presentation will be there, so I won't dwell too much on it.

You're gonna get a presentation on it.

Um, but uh the mayor's office uh just approved uh our replacement for a new uh policy director and interagency lead working on some of the other outs external projects with DPA that we have.

So we're very excited about that.

That new position will begin uh on March 9th, and I'll have more information uh as we get closer to that date.

Um the mayor's office has also uh approved of us filling for other key positions this year.

Uh three as part of our investigative staff, and one for our administrative staff from the city's pathway to hire program.

This is a very big deal.

As you know, we have been uh it's been.

Again, maintaining our same standards for the cases.

You're going to get the big overview for budget, but just that's a very big deal for us.

I'll reserve my comments for Sparks report until we get to it on the agenda.

But also to share with you that if there are issues that come up during today's commission, senior investigator Ali Schulteis is here to answer questions for DPA.

And if anyone in the public wants to contact DPA, they can reach us at sfgov.org forward slash DPA or contact us directly at 415-241-7711.

That concludes my report.

If any member of the public would like to make public comment, please approach the podium.

And there's no public comment.

Line item five.

Commission reports, discussion and possible action.

Commission president's report, commissioners' reports, and commission announcements and scheduling of items identified for consideration at future commission meetings.

There is no president's report, Sergeant.

I think.

Commissioner Yi.

Sorry about that.

Update, I want to thank the chief for participating in a Luna New Year public safety in the case of Chinatown on Bush and Grant talking about the public safety and the scam that's happened coming up in that usually sometimes in the Chinese or the Lunar New Year.

So again, ask the community and the merchants and uh residents if you see something and you hear something that's uh you need to report, make sure you report it to the police.

So thank the chief and um I guess the fellow uh the sheriff and then uh the the command staff and all the officers at Central Station, API form, and all the community members that attend.

Thank you very much.

Any member of the public would like to make public comment regarding line item five, please approach the podium.

There's no public comment.

Line item six presentation and discussion on SAPD's third and fourth quarter twenty twenty-five Sparks report and DPA's third quarter twenty twenty five Sparks report discussion.

Good evening.

Just give us a moment to get the PowerPoint up and going.

For the record, my name is Ajah Steves, and I am the manager of the policy development division, and I'm here to give you our report for the Q3 and Q4 Sparks report.

Um these should be in your packet.

They look just like this.

Uh they go over all of the policy update activity that happened again in 2025, Q3 and Q4.

I think.

If we can just go to the first slide, please.

So in Q3, we provided you 24 updates about DGOs and two manuals.

We also provided updates about 26 department notices on whether we would review, reissue, archive, or rescind in Q4.

Uh, we provided 17 updates about DGOs and three manuals, also 59 department notices on whether we would review, reissue, archive, and rescind.

And just as a reminder, uh, Sparks is required for both SFPD and DPA per a resolution from the police commission from 2006.

So just a reminder that the commission can look at the resolution and see if it needs to be updated, as I'm sure some of the terms and processes have been updated since then, but still require policy updates.

Next slide, please.

Um, from the 2023 and 2024 DGOs, this came from the annual lists that were approved.

Uh we have three that remain in the meet and confer process.

So we have 508, which is non-uniformed officers.

Uh that should be closing up soon.

We have 613 hate crimes that also should be closing up soon in the meet and confer process.

And 812 in custody deaths.

We are on calendar for closed session next Wednesday to hopefully close out that DGO.

Next slide, please.

So some updates on the 2024 DGO list.

So several are in the queue for leadership review, which we call concurrence.

425.

Excuse me?

24 or 25.

This is 2025.

You said 24.

Oh, I apologize.

2025 approved list.

Thank you.

Good catch.

So we have several in the queue for leadership review.

As you know, there's been several changes in leadership as of late, and also several changes with our deputy chiefs, our bureau chiefs.

So now we have calendared all of the ones that were in the queue for concurrence.

So these happen every other week where leadership then does get to opine on the policy and potentially offer changes.

We may have let something get to concurrence that isn't operationally sound.

And this is really the Bureau Chiefs and the Chiefs' opportunity to make uh revisions to the policy before we send it to commission.

See here on a DGO 523 interactions with deaf and hard of hearing is also in the queue for leadership review, so that's coming up.

609, which is the domestic violence policy and manual as well, are in the queue for leadership review.

I do want to bring your attention to DGO 1001.

We're combining that with 1003 and 1006, and that is right now out for public comment.

So we encourage members of the public and also members of the department to review that draft and provide us with comments so we can further revise.

Also, DGO 1012, that's our drones policy.

Thank you, Clay.

Commissioner Clay, you gave us the approval to extend the stage two recommendation grid to this Friday.

So we owe DPA responses that we will get to them either on or before this Friday.

So those are coming your way.

And also, I believe Executive Director Henderson, in a previous meeting, you had mentioned the RIPA DGO.

So we're calling that the data management DGO, and that's a three, we haven't given it all the numbers yet, but that was initiated last year, and we did not receive recommendation grid from DPA just yet.

I believe that your stage one period has closed, but you have another opportunity in stage two.

Um so that is where we're putting all of our like stop data, but we're also opening it up for other opportunities to manage data, data integrity, um like privacy rules.

So it's not just for stop data, it's about how the department itself manages data and reports out on it.

Um, and we're also working on a booking and detention manual.

Next slide, please.

And this is the approved 2026 list.

So we're getting started on this work.

Uh the chief of staff has three DGOs assigned.

The administrative bureau has two, but we actually think we're going to put one in front of this group for rescinding.

Special operations has two DGOs and one manual.

Field ops is the core of it.

We've got six for field ops, and actually all of those are from the 90s.

So we'll be finally up to date on the field ops and all of the 90s DGOs.

And the airport bureau, as you remember, I think in a previous um meeting, you heard about the airport situation, how they have a bunch of bureau orders that are mistitled as general orders.

So those are all going to be fixed, but we are doing one brand new general order for um for the airport bureau, and then the investigations bureau has one.

Next slide, please.

And then finally, I just want to talk briefly about the working group updates.

We had two working groups that closed out their activity in uh Q4 of last year, 2025, not 2024.

Um, so this was 609, this is our domestic violence, and our DGO 523 working group.

And I really, again, just want to highlight the work that they did.

We had community members, we had other city departments, um, we had victim advocacy groups come and meet with us on a regular basis, two hours each meeting to go over not only the policy, we also uncovered opportunities where we could update our web page.

We could update brochures and resource documents for victims, and also um documents that can help officers in their interactions.

And while I showed you this last week, I can actually give you now a copy so you can see this because we're very proud of this work.

Um, and actually, you can probably close this now, because I do want people to see this is a document that the deaf and hard of hearing work uh working group worked on, and they provided us with the information on how it should be laid out.

And this is what we hope will hope with help with traffic citations and just interactions, where it not only helps our patrol officer, but it helps the individual who might be getting pulled over and doesn't know what's actually happening.

And so the way it's laid out, what it says, what it looks like, this all came directly from feedback from the deaf and hard of hearing um working group.

We knew we wanted something, but we would have gotten it wrong if we did it without their feedback.

And again, we paired it with the top 10 languages that get translated in in San Francisco, because this is frequently used.

This is used several times a day, but this might only be used, you know, once or three times in a patrol officer's entire career.

So we don't want them, this is a perishable skill here, but this one isn't.

So we wanted to put them together so that officers always knew how to find this information so that they could improve their interaction.

And I'm very, very proud of something like this coming out of a working group.

Not only did they work on the policy, they worked on other materials.

We're also updating a web page for the deaf and hard of hearing uh with a video, and we'll also have an interpreter on the web page so it helps those community members navigate our spaces.

And also with the DV working group, we're still we're done with our meetings with the policy, but we're gonna continue meeting to talk about forms.

So we've realized that there were several forms that are used in a domestic violence incident where officers can be taken off the street for hours just to fill out the administrative forms that are required.

So we found ways to consolidate several forms, but also came out with extremely good resources for victims that include QR codes as well that lead right to the SVU webpage, which we are also improving, and then also directly to victim resources.

We also added um key rights and legal protections that the DA's office also checked off on just to make sure that victims know exactly what their rights are in these incidents.

So this came out of working group activity, and I I know that I can't quite articulate how proud I am of the work and also how grateful I am to these community members to volunteer their time, because that's what they're doing.

They're not paid to be here, uh, but they showed up.

We created hybrid meetings so that they could come on teams or come in person.

Um, but they volunteered their times to really make sure that SFPD officers have access to what the community needs them to have access to so they can improve their services.

So I'm very, very grateful.

And with that, I'd like to bring up first Dr.

Pamela Tate, who sat on the DV working group, um, just to say a few words.

Good afternoon, or should say evening.

It was an honor to sit on the DGO 609.

Um I run black women revolt against domestic violence here in San Francisco.

Um, this work is very, very personal for me, and so it was very, very important that I got to sit on it.

It was very um inspiring to hear directly from police officers what they're experiencing, how the forms work, what does not work on forms.

I am really all over forms and looking forward to some revisions on those, particularly around when someone has a restraining order and like four sheets of paper for each time they come, even if somebody has come out once.

We know that the perpetrator will leave again and then they have to do another four sheets of paper.

I'm like, can't that be consolidated?

Um because it does keep them off the streets and it does keep them away from working directly with people who need assistance if they're working on extra paperwork, particularly if it's something that can just be consolidated as one form with maybe incident one, incident two, incident three in a 24-hour period.

Um so something like that, also lifting up Marcy's law and making sure that people know which rights they need to ask for, because in reading the fine print on that, a lot of times that gets missed by survivors or victims.

And so having that lifted up as well.

And then honestly, it was an honor to sit with police officers and community members to actually have dialogue instead of having assumptions.

I really encourage that this process continues because it was absolutely amazing.

Thank you.

Thank you.

I'd like to call up um Officer Brian Santana from Mission Station.

Good evening, Commissioners.

Good evening, Chief.

My name is Brian Santana.

I'm a police officer, the San Francisco Police Department.

I have 13 years of experience working as a police officer, the last 10 with the City of San Francisco.

I've worked in the mission district for the last eight years.

I work as a field training officer, training new recruits after they graduate from the academy.

I'm a member of the hostage negotiation team, and I've just recently finished my certification to teach at the academy with the goal of teaching DUI investigations to the new recruits.

Over my time at the San Francisco Police Department, I've seen waves of policy changes come across our computer screens and our emails.

Some good, some that left something to be desired.

Some of these changes, it felt that they were written without or sometimes despite the input the police officers would provide for the policies.

And given that those police officers are sent out into the world to enact the policies, I would hope that we would have our input taken seriously.

One of the specific department general orders or DGOs that came through in recent years regarded domestic violence investigations.

The policy that was enacted, it was somewhere in the realm of 20 pages of dense, convoluted and legalese wording that was very difficult to understand and remember, especially when you're on a chaotic domestic violence scene.

And I was able to see firsthand with new recruits that I was training in the field, along with senior officers that have years of experience that had to at a moment's notice change the policy and remember minute details that could potentially affect their careers if they receive discipline, even if they had the intention of following the policy to a T.

A few months ago, I received an unexpected email from Ajah inviting me to take place in the working group.

And I can say candidly that my coworkers very often are willing to provide input in their gripes regarding things at work in a private setting, but they are unwilling or unable to do so in a public forum.

So when I had the opportunity to provide input and be part of the working group, I absolutely jumped at the chance, hoping that I could provide a police officer's side of the story when the new policy was written.

That we absolutely welcome transparency when it comes to policy reworking and oversight.

Allowing community members, community stakeholders, and subject matter experts onto this group was absolutely insightful and valuable, and they were able to provide things that I wasn't able to, would not would not have otherwise been able to understand from my perspective as a police officer.

So I would welcome the community members that provided their insight and input regarding the working group.

For me, the measure of this process was being able to explain my side of things, the shortcomings I saw in the policy and provide recommendations to people, many of which who had no prior experience or knowledge of police procedure, and come to a reasonable new policy that was much more condensed, understandable, and maintained the level of professionalism the city is looking to maintain.

So I just want to say thank you for Aja and the police commission for listening to me.

And I hope that this process continues in which we have police officers provide input on our new policies while also including the community member from District 5.

He also sat on the DV working group.

Good evening, uh commissioners.

My name is Stone Selseth.

I first got involved with this process through the monthly SFPD Tenderland community meetings, and that path eventually led me to the working group for the domestic violence DGO.

I'm interested to share why that inclusive process was so vital.

During these sessions, we heard directly from the nonprofits and survivors who are most affected by these policies.

At the same time, we learned about the heavy administrative burdens and the that the old DGO placed on officers.

It was a master class in balance.

We saw firsthand that without community representation, the department might have moved forward with a draft that, while well intentioned, simply would not have worked on the ground for survivors or for the officers responding to the call.

I want to personally thank Emily and Aja and uh Commissioner Lewang, all the members of SFPD and my fellow community representatives present.

And a special thanks to Commissioner Techie for inviting me to the SFPD Tenderland community meeting where I met Emily and got involved with the working group through this outreach.

I also want to thank the SFPD for having the foresight to include us.

This wasn't just a seat at the table, it was a real opportunity to prevent policy failures before they happened.

For me personally, this experience has been transformative.

It has opened doors to connect with and collaborate with other community leaders in ways I didn't anticipate.

It proved that when the city and the community work together on high stakes policies like domestic violence, we don't just get better rules, we get a stronger and more connected San Francisco.

Thank you for your time, and I urge you to continue using this collaborative model for all future policy reforms.

We have a few members from the um DGO 523 interacting with Deaf and Hard of Hearing Working Group.

I'd like to call up Daisy Jimenez, and she's a community member from District 11.

Good evening, President Clay and other members of the police commission.

So I was very much um excited that I was part of this DGO for the interaction of deaf and hard of hearing.

It was a very positive experience.

We both, I learned at least, what the police go through.

It just as simple as a as a as a stop or a phone or a house visit, and how much importance communication is with the deaf and hard of hearing.

This community of deaf and hard of hearing is a small community, and it's important to have this open conversation between the police officer and the small community because we're it's underrepresented.

And I would like to thank this, the DGO Aja and Emily.

It was run so well, these meetings.

It was well oiled machine.

We she they didn't waste any time.

We got to what we needed to do, and um we learned some things that the police uh needs to be a little bit updated with technology, uh, with uh communication with the deaf.

There's a lot of uh new ways to communicate with uh the deaf community, and so we need to continue to have that open uh door policy to continue learning from each other and as technology improves, and I wanted to thank um how important this this uh keeping this DGO alive.

Thank you very much.

I'd like to call up um looks like Vladimir Morrow with Access SOS.

Hello, my name is Vladimir Morrow.

Thank you for having me here.

And my first time presenting, so have be patient with me.

A little nervous.

I'm very excited to be involved.

I was very excited to be involved with this policy group, working with the group of people that we did, the managers, the commissioners.

And I learned a lot.

I learned a lot, and I understand what you guys, your perspectives of how we can make it work.

And I just wanted to thank you for your time.

And we see better policies in the future.

So thank you.

Next up is Gavin and Pat, and he's a community member at District 8.

Hello.

Thank you for having us.

I was not expecting to be speaking.

So first I'd like to thank Emily and Age of for really organizing and running the meeting very well.

I came to this more or less falling out of the sky.

I happen to run into Emily, mentioned that my mother was deaf.

She was an early recipient of a cochlear implant.

She was, I think, within the top the first 50 when it came out of whatever the protocol was, and they started paying for to have it done.

The day-to-day negotiations that they have to go through is incredibly difficult and incredibly stressful.

I know my mom had been pulled over a couple times by fire departments and police for not responding because she just didn't hear or things like that.

So the concern that the police department and the professionals showed in terms of the desire to interact, I thought was tremendous and very sincere work as to how to form a bond within the community on both sides of it, because there were clearly people who are been signing for all their lives, and there was someone, you know, people like myself who's had a parent who never learned to sign, but still had to negotiate the day-to-day.

So, you know, I really thank you and this community DGO for giving that opportunity to give people to a voice who have a very difficult time in communicating.

So thank you.

Next up is John Costa, and he works with the SF Office of Disability and Accessibility.

Good evening.

My name is John Coste.

I'm the office manager for the ODA, which stands for Office on Disability and Accessibility here in San Francisco.

Our office's goal, our mission is to make sure this city and and any programs that run within the city are fully accessible to the deaf and hard of hearing community.

Thank you.

So our mission at ODA is to make sure that all city programs and services and so forth are accessible.

That are fully accessible for the community, specifically here for the deaf and hard of hearing community.

Regarding that and our work on the DGO, I was I was enthralled to be involved with this discussion.

We had goals that were inlightment with ODA.

Actually, I'd like to tell you about the specific event happening this summer.

June 30th through July 5th.

The National Association of the Deaf will be coming to San Francisco.

It is the oldest civil rights advocate advocacy organization, was founded back in 1860, 1880, rather, and is one of the first recognized around the world.

At the time, deaf people weren't allowed to marry each other.

They were forced to marry a hearing person.

And the goal was to ban sign language and to try and control the passing on of sign language.

This is well before cars and well before any other sort of uh privilege and rights were involved.

So NAD has been involved with advocating for deaf people's rights for quite some time.

And there will be the national conference will be held in San Francisco this year.

So we're expecting about 3,000 deaf individuals to be in the Union Square area of San Francisco.

And really the eight blocks area of downtown.

So you're gonna see a lot of people signing in public spaces come this summer during that week, and the goal is to uh kind of piggybacking on this policy to make sure that we have uh different departments that are trained and understand how to interact with deaf and hard of hearing individuals and ODA's goal is to really shine a light on San Francisco.

We are the most progressive city around the US for this for accessibility, and we're gonna provide a series of workshops.

We expect about 15 uh hundred to 3,000 attendees for this conference.

These are from these are individuals from different regions all over the country that are coming here, and they are coming to San Francisco for this event.

We want to show them that our city uh has a passion for this, and I look forward to for future partnership with you all and your organization leading up to this event.

And I want to show you now how to applaud in ASL.

So everybody with your hands up in the air like this.

So hopefully our policy will be updated by June and actually approved.

We'll stay on time, I promise.

Uh next is Orchid Sassooni, and she is a community member from District 9.

Hi, good evening, commissioners.

My name is Orchid Sassoone.

I'm from District 9.

I'm a city uh city and county uh employee for San Francisco for many years, and I'm coming here to represent the mayor's office on disability, who works in conjunction with ODA, the Office of Disability and Accessibility, as you just heard.

And I'd like to explain a little bit about the history of my involvement and the work that we've been doing.

Especially with regard to DGO 5.23.

I believe this work began in just before the pandemic in 2019 or 2020, and then the project had to be put on hold.

There has been so many revisions and so much work done, blood, sweat, and tears, so to speak, done for this policy.

And it's not complete in in that it's not finished completely, but 5.23 has been focused on language access.

And that card really provides officers with a link to the community who are signers.

So this is really focusing on deaf people who use sign language as a form of communication.

We've worked together with this with this group working group to develop this card.

Do not try to put deaf.

And this is not just for deaf people, but some people who may have re uh maybe difficulty responding or are have some sort of impairment to their ability to speak, and they are more aligned with visual cues.

So the intention here is to allow officers to communicate with these individuals in the community.

And if you can imagine how uh back in the old days, deaf people really relied on paper communication, written form of communication to communicate with officers.

So I'm so uh grateful for your work, Aja, and for the community who's come forward, Emily and everyone to help us in this working group to develop this project.

And uh the interaction has been fantastic, the time given, all of the frustrations that happened and the communication ups and downs.

I want to recognize the team and all of the input that uh the community has had uh and put forth.

So I just want to really thank you for your time and involvement with us.

Thank you.

And finally, we have Brittany Weeks.

She's actually with the SF District Attorney's Office.

Hello, I did not know I was speaking today.

Um, so like Aja said, I'm with the district attorney's office.

Uh I am a victim advocate though.

Um this was a very important project for me because I've actually been using sign language for about 12 years now.

My best friend is deaf.

And in 2016, she also was a victim of domestic violence.

And I'm thankful that I'm in her life because when the incident occurred, she gave her statement by writing it on paper.

I wasn't there to interpret for her, but she gave her statement via paper.

And there's only so much you can convey like that.

Um, and so thankfully I know how to help with supplementals and things like that.

And so we realized very quickly that it did not convey everything correctly, and I was able to help her and get her to go down there and have an actual interview and with an interpreter this time, and things worked out much better that time.

And so knowing that this can help people in her situation, even adjacently.

I was extremely excited when my supervisor approached me asking if this was something I was willing and wanting to do, because it's not just about the victims who are deaf, but you know, we focused a lot on people who are being pulled over and maybe people who are being arrested, but that's the first step.

And anything making it safer for people who are deaf interacting with law enforcement will ultimately make it safer for everyone in the deaf community and law enforcement.

So victims, witnesses, children, everyone.

And they shouldn't have to have their best friend who happened to also be hearing go with them during an incident like that.

So I just want to thank Emily and Aja for doing this and making it happen and the team.

So thank you.

Can I say something?

Come on.

I have an afterthought.

I have an afterthought.

Um Aja mentioned we're gonna have uh we're planning, she's planning to have a video on the website for the um and uh and a training video for the for the officers as well.

Um the deaf is the the sign language is a visual language, and oftentimes when it's in written form, that's in English, and English is not necessarily their first language, it's American sign language.

So to have a video uh interpret it.

Um video for deaf uh Social Security recipients.

So if that could be an open communication to let to let the deaf community know in their language, a lot of things have been interpreted in Spanish and all these other languages in our city, but somehow American Sign Language that hasn't been interpreted in that way.

And I want to thank Aja.

She mentioned that, and I had a piggyback off of that.

Thank you.

Thank you.

And actually, that was an idea that came out of the working group.

It wasn't my idea.

It was because of our discussions with the group on how to best serve the community, and they're the ones that informed us that a video was the best.

And if anything, we can do that.

We can create not only a training video, we have community members that we can cast in our training video to actually help us with real life interactions.

And what we know also from officers is they'll watch a video.

We give them a video, and it's easy to understand, they will watch it.

And our training video will then last for a long time.

And we can do that in conjunction with the language access one, so that we update both 520 and 523.

And again, it's out there.

Cops can watch it and understand because it is a perishable skill with the deaf and hard of hearing because it happens so rarely.

But we don't want them to lose it.

We want them to have an easy accessible way to learn how to interact and serve their communities the best that they can.

So again, all of that came from the community members.

I do have to give a special shout out to DPA because they are the ones that started the DGO years and years ago with their own working group.

So I hope that I did you right by um honoring the work that you did in continuing the work in our updates.

Um so that wasn't that did I have to actually give them credit where credit's due, as well as I think they worked on the 609 working group several years ago.

So again, our hope is just to keep make sure that we're doing that work uh a service and we're honoring the community members that we're working with.

So I just want to thank everyone for coming and for helping us make our policy better and our training uh better and our forms better, and it's because you participated, so thank you so much.

Um, so that's all I have, and I'll take questions after the DPA uh presentation.

So I should I want to first I want to thank you for for this presentation, and I want to thank all the members here who spoke tonight and all those people here in support of those who spoke.

Uh, this is really a great experience because it tells us the process is working, you know, diverse working groups from all sector groups are mandated and important uh to understand what we need to get the work done.

And just you know, San Francisco is the city that gets things done, and we get it done collaboratively.

And what you've shown us here in talking hearing you speak tonight, that's what's happening, and just continue to do this.

This is this is great work, and in the future, as we see, we're gonna have more of these working groups, and you've got more of these coming down.

We expect the same results to that all the time.

We'll keep the quality high, all right.

Thank you.

All right, Director, director Henderson.

Uh, thank you.

Thank you for that uh uh shout-out for the work initiating this work with the deaf and hard of hearing uh community.

We have been working uh with the community for decades.

I feel like Samra's spirit is here tonight.

Uh one of the big concerns was the work after we passed uh a lot of this work in the DGO, uh, that we would get to this point where we would be institutionalizing uh the work so that it would continue, uh, and it has.

So I think it's a big deal.

I'm grateful and appreciative to see some of the faces uh in here again that have been at the table for so long uh working with us, uh, and I appreciate having the community come in validating how important this work is.

Thank you.

Commissioner Lyas.

Thank you, everyone.

Thank you.

That's okay.

Thank you, President Clay.

And thank you, Commissioner Lyas.

Just wanted to thank members of the community who participated in the working group and also who showed up here today.

Thank you so much for your participation.

I want to thank Ms.

Galizia and Director Steves for all your help.

Um, I had the pleasure of being perfectly involved in one of the working groups, and it was just incredibly easy to participate.

And such bodies and what they do are so important.

I think frankly, um, are crucial to the notion of what community policing is all about.

So thank you, Commissioner.

I want to thank you all for coming and sharing your uh invaluable feedback.

It's a very different tone than last week, and so we appreciate this because I think that what you exemplify is how important it is when community participates, and you get people in the room that have different views because when you're surrounded by people who are like-minded, it's oftentimes you don't discover new things or learn things from other people's point of view, which I think is crucial, especially in policy-setting environments.

And so when I went to my first working group, it would I learned so much from both police officers, advocates, and the department, and it was just like wow.

Um, and I think that over time it just made me better, especially in this role as a policymaker on the commission.

So thank you so much for taking the time to participate.

And I also wanted to also highlight this is one of the reasons why we also put this process online so that people can participate in this policy making process and that it's transparent because one of the things that we heard or and that I have experienced especially with officers is that oftentimes these policies are forced upon them without their input or their vantage point or having community understand where they're coming from and vice versa.

And so that's why we put this stuff online so that police officers can anonymously go on and put their input on these policies that are being developed so that they can be they can speak free you know freely honestly without any fear of retaliation or repercussion and they can give their viewpoint which I think the officer who shared his story really exemplified so and it's also a way for community who aren't able to physically be present at the working group to also still be involved and still participate and share their vantage points.

So we worked really hard to get that process online so I'm really really happy that it's there.

The other question I had was for Miss Steve's is I was hoping that you could explain to the working group so that we don't have any miscommunications like we did last week the process now that the that the working group's closed and the policy is where it is so I think it would be helpful to explain to them how if there's any revisions by the department how they're going to be notified how they're going to be kept informed because one thing we worked very hard at eliminating was that after this hard work and this beautiful product is produced that people who weren't a part of the magic come give their two cents.

Right?

So I want to make sure that it's very clear that their work is respected and preserved.

So I I think that we should take an opportunity to explain to them how the process works because it does before it comes to us as the commission when we vote on it and then it goes to meet and confer.

So I think information on that process is so we did receive 26 comments on the DEV the DGO 609 DGO that was on public review.

We only received 10 comments for the DGO 523s will go through additional revisions so that we can be responsive to some of the more substantive recommendations that came in from community members.

We did send all of our community members the link when it went on to public comment so they were aware of that phase.

Then once we make those changes we will reach out to the working group to let them know that we're moving on to the next phase and that the document has changed.

But we also plan on staying in communication with this working group both actually because we're still working on forums with the DV and we're still working on the training videos with the deaf and heart of hearing so we're staying in contact really that's what's changed is we're staying in contact with them all the way through past implementation.

So then the next phase will be leadership review and then we will circle back with each of the um working groups to let them know what leadership came to and that the draft has changed and that it's going to commission and then we will invite them to come to commission to comment on the document once it's calendared.

But we'll stay in touch with them because we want their help with the implementation of the training video which might also result in some meetings at the academy where our community members can come to the academy as well and do in person.

So we'll stay in touch and that's what really what our goal is for 520 now that we've reopened the working group essentially is to get them back reacclimated and talk about these other options because it's not just the policy they touch you know web pages and maybe really the concern is they want flyers in the stations or they want more outreach for their communities.

That's something that we can control and really have um use their input maybe it's adding to the training since we're doing a training for five two three five two zero can now come in and help with the language access portion of it.

So it's just continuing the conversations uh through each development phase which we've been doing with these groups.

Can you give an estimate of when the uh final product will come before the commission for having the June um 20 June uh date in mind.

I think it would be helpful to get a sense because not only does it come before the commission for a vote, but then it goes into meet and confer with the union and they have to give their input before we can actually finalize and have a working policy that officers adhere to.

And I know that um the person that was internal to the department that moved the meeting process through is now gone, and we are now in the general population of meet and confer with all city agencies, so that's slowed down the process a little bit.

So can you give us a timeline on that?

I can try to.

Um we are scheduled for the 11th of March for leadership review.

Our hope is that we can get it done in one meeting.

If we can't, we have to meet the following uh Wednesday.

So once we get that packaged out of um the leadership review, we then send it to commission within um 20 business days.

So our hope is that it gets to you by April or May, and then it would go into the meet and confer process.

I will turn it around to you for the meet and confer process.

Yes, Commissioner, we've worked really hard to streamline this.

So we have something that we think is going to provide the expediency that you are hoping to see, despite the fact that um the person who is dedicated to do this work is no longer with our department.

Um, and that now that turns it over to DHR.

So we have right now a very good working relationship with the POA.

Um we have spoken to DHR about that streamlined process, and I will commit to you that we will get that through.

Can you tell us what that streamlined process is?

Yeah, the streamlined process is that we will give the POA an opportunity through an informal meeting to review all of those documents, and I think that through that informality on the initial end, there will be far less that needs to go to the full and formal meet and confer.

So they will get an opportunity to see the policy.

Um, and if they have any objections, then, and they're something that we can't work out immediately, then we will go through again DHR.

But otherwise, we believe that there can be a lot of compromise on both ends with the department and the POA.

This has been very successful thus far.

Um, we have we're doing this now, um, so really the goal would be when it does need to go to that formal meet and confer because we're taking up less of their time that we will be able to get these through.

Any informal edits that are done to the policy, will how is the commission going to be apprised of those?

Yes, so I will be giving you updates on that uh as these arise.

So if they have some edits that the department feels are you'll get edits from me at both stages if we were able to resolve informally or not or formally, um, and you will see a lot more of me.

So hopefully that's good.

No, that sounds great because it actually is similar to the process we had, because at working groups the POA was invited to all of our working groups, and yes, they're usually they usually weigh in on the DGOs before they even come to the commission.

So I don't think that's anything sort of new.

Not really new, but yeah.

So hopefully this will speed it up.

But I'm glad you're here because on page three of the um presentation, um, it indicates that there are three DGOs that are that it says at meet and confer, and they're they're dated September, October, and November of last year.

Yes.

So how is that?

Um, and I think that's when we lost the person, um, our our internal well the department's internal meet and confer.

Yes.

So the where are these now and how fast are we going to get them?

Because it's been a couple months, and I I want to I want to get this figured out so that when we have this important policy that's coming before us, we can have it on an expedited track.

Sure.

Uh 8 12 is on calendar uh next Wednesday and closed session.

So we'll discuss the final edits for A12.

That should be done hopefully next Wednesday.

Uh just receive notice on the final edits for 508 and or requests for 508 and 613.

So now I just need to work with uh Sergeant Youngblood to get on your calendar for closed session to discuss those two.

Commissioner Scott.

Thank you.

Wow.

First, let me say um congratulations on such an amazing project um for communication.

Communication is so key and necessary um when it comes to law enforcement um and understanding.

And my hats off to well, all of our house of all to all of you who have the put in so much time and dedication to this.

It's commendable.

It's very commendable, and it's something that not only for San Francisco, but something that could be utilized all over this nation because communication is one of the major problems when it comes to law enforcement, and the community.

And this here is a valuable resource and a valuable piece.

I mean, I remember a young man that was deaf in my community 20 20 something years ago, and there was miscommunication, and they didn't know he was deaf.

And it didn't turn out too good.

But this here, something like this, my goodness.

All of you are to be commended.

Thank you for your time, your commitment, your dedication, and your leadership to making our community safer, to helping our police department to do better, and the POA.

Everybody who was involved in this, this is very, very uh special.

And I see this um as something that will be utilized not just here in San Francisco, but we'll be utilized in the state and is out and then our nation.

So thank you.

Thank you.

Thank you, President Clay.

Uh, thank you to all the members of the community um for uh participating and sharing your experiences.

I want to um and thank you to Commissioner Leong for assisting and being the commissioner assigned to these uh to one of the working groups.

I mean, I think that the working group process as a policymaking process is one that the department of the commission should be very proud of.

It is one that fosters collaboration between community, between the department, between the commission.

Uh I think uh as a number of the commenters said, it's so valuable to have officers in the room with members of the community and allowing you to work there collaboratively on that process.

I also think it's important for this commission and for the community to recognize the genesis of these working groups, they are a product of this commission and a product of the Department of Justice reforms.

Um Department General Order 3.01, which this commission uh has passed in collaboration with the department, is what permits and authorizes these working groups to take place.

And so that policy, which is in some ways our policy on policymaking is one of the most important general orders without that department general order, without the encouragement of the U.S.

and California Department of Justice to establish back 10 years ago to establish a more collaborative process.

And so I think it's very important as we look at the next decade of this department policy making, you know, under new leadership that we maintain those gains that this commission has made with department general 3.01 with the reforms that this department enacted in conjunction with the Department of Justice because this happened because of those reforms.

This happened because this commission took action and worked with the department with multiple chiefs to build with multiple commission presidents to build a structure that allows these working groups to happen.

It didn't happen overnight, it happened with a lot of work and a lot of time, and uh looking forward to that continuing to happen now that we're seeing the fruits of that.

So thank you.

Commissioner Yee.

Uh thank you very much, President uh Clay.

I just want to echo all the commissioners.

Uh, thank you to the working group, thank you, policy direct Steve and to uh our assistant chief uh for all your hard work uh as I learned today.

This is how I want to end it.

Thank you.

Thank you so much.

Director Anderson, are you presenting at all on this?

Oh, I don't have as much as you all know.

Uh while our last policy director was uh in and out of the position, uh a lot of the information you already received.

I have some information.

I let you know at the beginning of the meeting that we have a new director coming in to take over these uh the issues that uh will continue with our Sparks report, but I do have a couple of updates for uh our policy staff.

Uh we did issue our 2025 third quarter sparks report.

Uh we participated, DPA and two commission approved DGO working groups uh that met multiple times in Q3.

Uh and those were uh DGO 5.23, uh which were our interactions with deaf and hard of hearing individuals, uh DGO 6.09, uh the domestic violence and manual, which we've already heard from, so I won't dwell on those things that you've already heard.

Uh, we also participated in the policy failure tracking.

So in Q3, we worked with SFPD's policy development division to track the outcomes of policy failure cases.

Uh SPD uh issued department notices, DNs, or DGO revisions to address three specific policy failures that we worked on.

Uh Department Notice 2519, which provided officers with guidance on responding to SWATTING, which is the dangerous and false reporting uh to the police about serious emergencies.

Uh we also participated in working on uh Department Notice 25-006, which cautions officers against providing sensitive information about a victim on an emergency or protective order, and then DGO 6.14, which added procedures for transporting violent suspects and ambulances.

Uh there are a couple of open policy recommendations uh that were also provided, uh providing officers with Cal DOJ guidance on perceptions during a stop, and then also on clarifying conflicts of interest for police officers related to personal or family interest.

Uh we do plan on DPA revising our Sparks report this year in collaboration with our incoming policy director to make the report more accessible and formative and impactful for the community.

Uh and the full report uh beyond my summarized notes is are in the notes that have already been filed and are readily available online as well.

That's it.

Uh thank you very much.

Uh President Clay.

I just got a question there, Director General.

Uh Paul Henderson.

Um do you have rent included in your in your uh budget expense?

That's gonna be another topic.

Oh, that's another time, okay.

Oh, but draw the question.

If any member of the public would like to make public comment regarding line item six, the Sparks report, please approach the podium.

Thank you.

Let me get my code here.

Hello again.

This is John Costi.

Returning to make a comment.

Um, representing the Office on Disability and Accessibility.

I really appreciate your consideration and the need for expediency regarding 5.23 and working with the deaf and hard of hearing public.

So I I just want you to know this uh will not just impact San Franciscans, as you meant many of you mentioned, but this will impact the whole country.

Communication access.

If a deaf individual is arrested and say put into jail, then they need to make the phone call, the initial phone call.

But jails often have outdated technology, something called a TTY, in the institution to be able to call outside people.

But this doesn't currently work with how the community uses technology now.

And in DGO 5.23, we act we recognize this issue as a problem.

In these cases, it's important to let the deaf individual use their phone, not just for calling out their initial outside call, but to be able to contact other people and use accessibility technology, aka an interpreter on the phone to be able to communicate and have their needs met.

There's an app that converts speech to text, which can help officers communicate with deaf individuals as well.

These are just a couple of examples.

And there was another point that I also wanted to mention.

These two, of course, and a third point regarding visibility.

And when we're referring to the National Association on the Deaf, the conference I mentioned that's coming here, we'd like to make sure that all officers have an app ready to deal with the deaf and hard of hearing public that's attending.

That they, if there is a criminal activity, that they use an ASL interpreter who is certified, nationally certified.

It's a base level of professional recognition.

And there's an app that they can have downloaded on a device and ready to use and have it be a mobile accessibility opportunity.

So since we're going to be having thousands of deaf people in the Union Square area in the downtown area, I want you all to be ready and be prepared with the technology that can help you be successful.

This is also a way to be inclusive ongoing.

So I do want to make sure that we um we note this to your commission and to the department, and also recognize that when there is a need for a certified interpreter, professional certified interpreter, there's some confusion across the country regarding uh what this means.

Sometimes officers will use a family member during a situation for communication with a deaf individual to ask initial questions and provide support as needed.

This is fine for an initial uh consultation, but when we're discussing a criminal offense or potential suspected criminal offense, emergency assistance aside, basic communication uh can be rendered there.

But when we're talking about, you know, a speeding ticket isn't going to be a criminal offense.

But when we're talking about something serious, when you're going to be assigning charges to an individual, this is a case where you cannot be using family members.

You need to bring in a certified interpreter, which protects the department.

A lot of places don't recognize this, and there are three key areas.

These are three key areas that would be important to have not just San Francisco be exposed, but the state and the entire country to uh aid you in your work.

Thank you so much for your time.

What one thing I'm gonna ask is that we agendize an update uh on this VGO in May, as well as any other updates since the conference is gonna be in June.

Uh, we should have it before the commission and then that way you we can get an update from the department as to where we are and if any of that technology will be available for the conference in June.

Um also, too.

I would encourage you, we do have if you want to email updates or questions to the commission office, uh, those also get to us as well, so that we can see those.

Uh email questions to the office.

That would be fantastic.

Thank you so much.

Thank you.

And that is the end of public comment.

Line item seven presentation and discussion and possible action to approve SFPD's proposed budget fiscal year 2027 through 2028 discussion and possible action.

Okay, good evening.

Uh, President Clay, Vice President Benedicto, Commissioners, Executive Director Henderson, and Chief Liu.

I am uh Kimmy Wu, the chief financial officer at the San Francisco Police Department.

And today I am here to present part two of the budget submission.

Uh this slide outlines the budget next steps.

Uh, first, the commission uh today is to provide feedback, review, and take action.

And the department phase will end on February 23rd when our budget submission is due as part of the charter.

The mayor's phase begins, and we will closely we will work closely with their office to discuss the changes.

And by May 31st, the mayor will submit the balanced budget to the board, and the board phase will begin on June 1st.

The four budget priorities are one grow to full staffing, two, enhance public safety and street conditions, three equip officers effectively, four strengthened technological infrastructure.

The annual strategic budget priorities are shown here.

The strategic priority setting timeline process includes review process by the command staff to generate a list of potential priorities, waiting and review by with input from captains as well as command staff.

Annual internal budget requests process is the request forms are due in the month of December, and major funding should align with annual and strategic priorities.

Remaining requests are evaluated for potential absorption into the budget, and all assessment of proposed reductions are reviewed in an ongoing basis for savings.

Align overtime with staffing levels, appropriations to reflect actual staffing needs to help manage costs while maintaining service coverage.

Equipped officers to industry standards, ensure all officers have the equipment to promote safety, compliance, and effective service delivery.

Technological infrastructure and capital planning.

Invest in modern technology and long-term capital projects that will enhance efficiency.

And now on this slide is our fiscal year 26-27 general fund budget, and that at the base amount is $755 million.

This is excluding the airport bureau.

Sworn city sworn members is $192 million.

And civilian professional staff is 45 million.

And services of other departments make up the 11%, and the top three are listed there: workers' compensation, department of technology, and rent.

The remaining expenditure categories each are less than 2%, and shown there on the slide.

Summarized, we received 159 requests, totaling 24 million.

And compared to last year, the year before, this is significantly less in the number of requests that we've received in the department.

And this year, the top category is 11.2 million for non-personnel cost or technology, followed by $6.8 million for new positions or reclassification.

$3 million for fleet, $2.2 million for facilities, and lastly, 0.4 million in materials and supplies.

This chart here shows our non-personnel services budget.

And as you can see, since fiscal year 23, we have not seen an increase to this budget for non-personnel services.

And the chart, the bar chart below shows the top five categories and comparing the last three fiscal years, the actual amount spent.

And again, we have not received any increases for these required nonpersonnel services.

The totals in our base is 16.8 million, and that represents about 2% of our general fund budget.

Costs have continued to increase for inflation, and yet our spending is relatively flat in the previous fiscal years.

Rent is the most in this category, followed by software licensing, which fluctuates based on timing of renewals.

Vehicle rentals continue to be a slight decrease, however, that is due to budget constraints and training to outside vendors have reduced, while system consulting has increased.

The materials and supplies budget make up less than one percent of our budget.

And as you can see, uh the top four categories are shown there, and they do fluctuate over the fiscal years, and that is due to based on our usage and timing of our orders.

The next two slides, I'm gonna show the crime comparison and also calls for service comparison, and part one crime trends show a continued year-over-year decline, particularly in homicide with a 50% decrease, larceny theft 53% decrease, and the auto theft 52% decrease.

And total calls by priority is the lowest total calls in the past four years.

And here in this last slide, I will provide a NIBERS records management system project update.

This is new police technology ecosystem agreement that we had executed with Axon in December of 2025.

The implementation will start uh has started in January 2026, and this is for the NIBERS compliant records management system.

Also, uh implementation in July 2026 will start for the Axon body for cameras, video integration, and digital evidence integration, and the total implementation schedule is expected to be 18 months with a go live targeted in July 2027.

And that uh concludes my presentation for today.

Well, you're our uh financial expert.

And I know you would need more than what you're asking for.

I support everything you're asking for for the department.

We know we're not gonna get it.

I mean, we're not in a budget surplus, but we need it, and so to that extent, what you presented the priorities are right, and hopefully uh with our support that the mayor will see that he wants to service this industry, our public service, and that we will get as much as we can that we've asked for, knowing that we need more.

So thank you for the presentation, and I'll open it up for the other commissioners.

I'm through.

Make a motion, yeah.

Motion to uh adult uh budget.

Second.

Any member of the public would like to make public comment regarding line item seven.

Please approach the podium.

There's no public comment.

On the motion, Commissioner Techie, how do you vote?

Yes.

Commissioner Techie is yes.

Commissioner Scott?

Yes.

Commissioner Scott is yes.

Commissioner Liang?

Yes.

Commissioner Young is yes.

Commissioner Yi?

Yes.

Commissioner Yi is yes.

Commissioner Lias?

Yes.

Mr.

Lyas is yes.

Vice President Benedicto.

Yes.

Vice President Benedicto is yes.

And President Clay.

Yes.

President Clay is yes.

You have seven yeses.

Line item eight.

Presentation and discussion on DPA's budget priorities, fiscal year 2027 through 2028 discussion.

Good evening, President Clay, Police Commissioners, Chief.

My name is Nicole Armstrong, and I'm the CFO for the Department of Police Accountability.

First, I want to thank you for the presentations today and congratulate you, Chief, on a successful Super Bowl.

The presentations today with the DBO, DB, the DV and the Heart of Hearing have given me so many ideas in the future of what to do for DPA.

I've actually already reached out and made contact with them to be able to not only, you know, take what's being suggested, but actually add it to our own website.

So I just wanted to say thank you so much for that presentation.

I actually really enjoyed it.

It's probably one of my favorite presentations I've had at the police commission.

I just want to take a moment.

So thank you guys for that.

So tonight I'm presenting on the budget proposal for DPA for fiscal year 26 through the 28th cycle.

And we're really focusing on stability, efficiency, and charter glance.

Next slide.

Oh, can you please uh the PowerPoint on?

All right, thank you.

All right, there we go.

All right.

As you know, the mayor's budget priorities are focusing on the safe streets, clean neighborhoods, and excellent core city services.

Um next slide.

At DPA, we're tasked with uh other departments.

We're have been tasked with restructuring and current restructuring around current staffing levels and identifying long-term savings costs.

Next slide.

Um at um our core service at DPA, it focuses on investigations, audits, legal policy, and community engagement.

This year alone, for the last uh year, we closed we received 899 complaints at DPA, which is actually a 22% increase in complaints that we've had year over year.

Um we closed 938 cases, which shows that we keep having an increase in cases at DPA.

Um, we make sure that we provide not only critical oversight for the San Francisco Police Department, but also for the sheriff's office.

Next slide, please.

All right, so what you're seeing on the screen right now is our uh funding categories, and we have two slides.

One is gonna be a graph so you can see the differences, and the next one will actually be a breakdown of it.

Um but when you look at our slides, you'll see that about 77% of our total budget is salary and fringe, which is pretty much our entire budget.

Um, and then the next is our programmatic non-personnel.

Uh we do have some funds that are 695, which is a quite funded project, and those are our digital projects that we're working on.

One is with um digitizing all of our records for the 1980s.

I know uh director Henderson has been talking about it.

Very excited about this project, because I'm working with the team to digitize all these records and move them from a server to where they don't get archived every day to where we're actually able to access it, um, as well as working with um SFPD on making a data sharing where we want to share data back and forth so that way we're not having to share excels, which as you guys can imagine, data entry on both sides, risk you know, mistakes, plus you know this will allow us to communicate much better and more efficiently.

So I'm really excited about these two projects and really working on them.

Um Chief, I believe your staff reached out to me today about it, so I'm really excited to start working on it with Axelon and figuring it out as well as with DT.

Um go to our FTs, please.

All right, so these are our FTEs right now.

So we're maintaining a stable workforce uh with our investigation division, remaining our largest team at DPA, and it's 16.5 FTEs.

Um this includes our senior investigators, our investigators, and chief of investigations.

Next slide.

But really, I want to make sure to show what our funding is going to be, what they're looking like, what's going to be for the next year.

So we're really grateful for the mayor's office, which has been working closely with us to make sure we right size DPA, which means growing it and making sure this partnership that ensures that we have all of the specific needs and resources to meet our evolving needs as time goes on.

For the upcoming fiscal year, the mayor's office is a is not requiring DPA to take any financial cuts, which is really great news for us.

We have no targets, and that's because we're already streamlined our entire operations, and we're working as efficiently as possible.

We have also been able to successfully work with the mayor's budget office to backfill four positions and get the pathway to hire through HSA, which if you guys don't know about the Pathway to Hire program, it trains clerks, people of 1402, 1404 ranks, and allows them to gain experience to work in departments for about three years.

At DPA, because we are a lean department, we try to find any ways we can to find money or find help that we can.

So we help train them for our reception desk, help them with, and they are amazing and outstanding people.

We've I think we've gone through about four rotations with them.

Really fantastic.

And we're actually onboarding the our new one on Tuesday of next week, and I'm very excited to bring them on board.

So salary realities for the DPA.

95% of our staff is at top step, which means our department does not have any traditional salary savings.

So we need to be paying attention to our funds.

How do we have our operational and overhead costs?

So what this means is looking forward now through our submitting our budget and our priorities is we're working with the mayor's office to ensure that DPA is aligning with the growth of SFD officers.

So as SFPD is, you know, filling their ranks with staff, that means that DPA will also be increasing our staff of investigators.

Um the mayor's office, we're already discussing adding 1.5 investigators for the new fiscal year to in alignment with the new ranking.

I think the last one was 1,883 officers, and we expect those to continue as we go, so that will add additional investigators to our ranks.

Um we're also working with the mayor's office to work on balancing our overhead costs as well as our on-call pay.

Um as I said, our operationals, our salary saving is not there, so we need to find ways of uh making our on-call OIS pay, which is our office uh our senior investigators and our attorneys responding out for OIS calls.

Um our goal is to really find a way to balance it for long-term sustainability.

Um we do not have any grants at this time in our budget.

We are always seeking to look for them.

Um so as we continue on, um, our staff at DPA for our budget is the two people you see before you.

So I want to thank Sharice, who really does a lot of the hard work.

But we're a very tiny office, so we look for anywhere that we can and find efficiencies that we can do.

Um I want to thank you for your time, and I'm here to answer any questions you have.

So thank you for your presentation.

I guess the question came up in terms of the interrelationship.

You know, our are here this commission, we don't have any oversight of your budget as by way of statute, but the question was asked to me, and we looked at the presentation.

The question is is your core services, and you said one thing which is really key.

You said the growth of the budget for staff or DPA is predicated on the growth of the police department, and you want to get a pro rata in terms of service from the mayor.

So the question was well, how much of your time based upon your divisions and core services is dedicated to the sheriff's department for your budget because what you have to take time from somebody is the sheriff, so using us as your factor and not using the sheriff's how that how that relates in what you're getting from the mayor's office.

That's what the question was to me.

I don't know what your designated of people who work for you who work for the sheriff who works for us.

So we don't have that oversight, but we're using our police department to service and get money for you, saying the growth of police department controls what we need, but there's also this other entity that's being used that you're servicing.

So you can explain that.

Um yeah, so right now we have two staff that are dedicated to doing sheriff's investigations.

Um they are paid through a work order with the sheriff's Office of Inspector General.

Uh so those two staff members are doing it.

I can tell you right now, based on the numbers, and these are preliminary numbers.

Right now, even with those two staff members out, our processing average time is about ninety-three days.

Our staff is increasingly is extremely efficient and effective for what we're doing right now.

The mayor's office is well aware that we have that we're we're covering both these departments, and we're working hard with them to make sure that we have the correct staffing.

Um we're basically focusing on both areas, but we agree we would we would like more funding, more positions, more that we can assist with.

And I'll let Director Henderson who looks either.

That is correct.

That's already in our budget.

That's in our work orders.

That is correct.

I think I can clarify this more though.

Those crossover two positions are administrative positions.

The all of the investigation stuff that I think is the core responsibility stuff are separate budgets.

So that wasn't part of this presentation.

What we're talking about here and today is all of the stuff for DPA, police stuff.

The sheriff's staff is uh the sheriff's budget as it will is done through like work orders, but that's a whole separate presentation.

Does that make sense?

But I guess what we're you said here says sheriff's oversight, sheriff's office misconduct investigations, jail oversight support, inspector general collaboration.

That's what it says in the document.

That's what I got a call on to ask me, and I don't.

And we don't have this oversight, but we're asking for money from us for for our proportionality is is based upon our population to get your growth.

But that's what it says there.

That's so that's what I'm asking about.

I mean, that data is correct.

So we are we do have those two positions that are on our staff that do those investigations.

Um our goal at this time, and it has been since the beginning, is to have the Office of Inspector General, the Sheriff's Office to be stood up, so we can transfer over those responsibilities over.

I mean, that at the end of the day is our full goal until that time until the mayor's office stands up, that somebody needs to do this work.

Um, mayor's office is working with us in collaboration to make sure we have the budget and the support to be able to do this work.

Um, but and we are paid through the sheriff's office to cover two of those positions.

Um so the budget, part of that budget comes from those work orders for those two positions, so those aren't in our budget uh technically.

Uh but I agree with you.

We would like to have our full staff focused on here or have additional funding to support us.

Um, thank you.

Okay.